Fabio Ciravegna
University of Sheffield
WeSenseIt project, wesenseit.eu
United Kingdom

Biography
Prof Fabio Ciravegna is Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies at the Department of Computer Science of The University of Sheffield, UK. His research field concerns Knowledge and Information Management over large scale, covering 3 main areas: (i) How to capture information over large scale from multiple sources and devices, (ii) how to use the captured information; and (iii) how to communicate the information. He is the director of the European Project WeSenseIt on citizen observatories of water and PI in the EPSRC project LODIE (Large Scale Information Extraction using Linked Open Data, EP/J019488/1). He was General Chair of the European Semantic Web Conference.

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